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  • October 15, 2014 at 5:32 pm #127931
    streak
    Member

    So it appears that my developers used Minimum’s widgetized homepage. When I look in the home widget areas under Appearance > Widgets I can see some of the content of my homepage. They also used a custom template. This all means that , my home page is blank when looked at in the editor but not when it's previewed.

    I am using an SEO plugin to help with best practice on the internal pages and blog posts.
    How do I go about adding meta tags etc. to my Home page that I cant see in the editor?

    Do I need to do some editing of the template-homepage.php file?

    Thanks.

    October 17, 2014 at 6:50 am #128137
    Craig
    Member

    In your WordPress dashboard, go to Genesis > SEO Settings, and there should be a metabox there allowing you to add a title, description and keywords for the home page.

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    October 17, 2014 at 10:45 am #128154
    streak
    Member

    Thanks for the reply Craig.
    If I mouse over Genesis the 2 options that appear are theme settings and import/export.
    Under settings there is Information, Custom feeds, header, footer etc. but no place to enter title, description, keywords etc.

    October 17, 2014 at 6:26 pm #128211
    Tom
    Participant

    Disable the WordPress SEO plugin if you want to re-enable the Genesis SEO setup.

    Yoast doesn't believe in packing pages with meta keywords: "Meta Keywords: why I don’t use them". See the section on this page for "Sitewide meta settings". See also the section under "Titles & Meta > Home" labeled "Meta description template" where you should be able to setup meta tags.

    I had thought the developer was also providing SEO services (e.g. "funding-expert" as the slug for the "Contact" page, "business-loans" instead of "About"), etc.

    I also recall the other problems you mentioned in the forums with the developer, responsive design, templates, messing with Genesis core files, footer problems etc. If you'd like to see a slightly different take on executing the site design drop me a note here.

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    October 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm #128491
    streak
    Member

    Thanks for your input Tom.
    There was a level of SEO done by the developers. I have pretty much left the developers and continue to do a bit of work on my own. The site could do with a lot of improvement but is functional for now based on the low amount of traffic we are getting.

    We are talking to a local SEO specialist company and may start a campaign with them which could involve some site changes.

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